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«Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom»
Author: Friedrich August Hayek
| About:
Freedom
| Keywords:
beforehand, beneficial, effects, granted
«However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.»
«Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Grief,
Happiness,
Mind
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beneficial, develops, grief, powers
«Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us»
«Any thought, speech or deed causing harms to other is 'sin' while anything which is beneficial for others... gives joy to others is 'virtue'. »
«I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.»
«Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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beneficial, discriminating, give in, noxious
«A state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands, even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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beneficial, docile, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfs, dwarves
«Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
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beneficial
«Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.»
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